Psychopath can be identified by a page in the social network

Curious experiment Swedish uchёnyh



Most people use social networks to publish family photos or, for example, photo-reports about parties and travel, but there are those who by means of social media shows the dark side of his nature, laying the shocking and provocative materials and setting the "bloodthirsty" status. Recently, Swedish scientists conducted an experiment whose purpose was to find out how the information on the page in the social network can reveal the personal qualities of the person, including the psychopathic mind, reports Daily Mail.

The research staff of the Academy and Sahlgrenska University of Lund studied profiles 300 US users of social networks, in addition, each of the volunteers who gave their pages for the experiment had to go through tests to identify psychopathic, neurotic, extrovert and some other traits. Experts have 15 latest status updates each profile latent semantic analysis and compared the results with those obtained during the test.





According to scientists, such as narcissistic nature tend to emphasize their positive qualities, and in communicating to them characteristic egocentrism, narcissism, and sometimes excessive self-confidence. Neurotic personality can be recognized by frequent status updates, and, say, extroverts tend to be a lot of "my friends».

If the profile is practically not found references to the emotions of its owner, but a lot of cynicism and deliberately immoral statements, most likely in the nature of the present owner a fair share of Machiavellianism, that is striving to manipulate people and use them for their own purposes.

Psychopathic personality is often spread on the pages of images of a pornographic nature, but also, for example, pictures of mutilated, injured people and dead bodies. Speaking prone to exhibit psychopathic lack of empathy, and are almost always focused only on their own interests.

via factroom.ru